Vermicelli noodles fried with sweetened milk. Kofta with pine nuts in a tahini sauce. Keeping the Bear-Garden in the Background.

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Sunday, January 13, 2013. Recently, the Politics Department at UCSC held a remembrance for Jack Schaar. Schaar, legendary teacher, commanding lecturer, prose stylist. He was the last of the great Puritans. A Calvinist, exalting of pastoral communitarianism. An anti-federalist in the style of Kropotkin, and an American patriot. His heroes were Winthrope, Hawthorne, Twain, Faulkner and Melville. He was as likely to advise students to live on farms as he was to usher them into PhD programs.

Being a writer feels very much like being a Chicana, or being queer a lot of squirming, coming up against all sorts of walls. Her fully exteriorized inner race war in. El verbo de la conquista.

Tuesday, January 01, 2008.

I write, brush my teeth, and use a fork with my left.

On May 23, 2011 by Hugo Blumenthal. Could be said to depend strongly on a series of questions of appearances. Full text available at www. On May 23, 2011 by Hugo Blumenthal. On a first impression, on a first reading,.

Short stories for short attention spans. Monday, May 31, 2010. Tablecloth, forks, and cups. Cheese puff stained fingers and short pants. Plastic coolers filled with ice and beer. Sparklers that spit sulfur on angel food cake until children could swipe them away. Those old enough to know that there was no harm in the spark running the young into hysterics. Beloved, the plastic boats we ran with, alongside the creek bank.